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(from ebookjapan): Mirage is an old-fashioned bar on a street corner. Men who are lost in life go to the Mirage, transcending time and space, and become captivated by the beautiful proprietress Maya. What do the defeated men usually ask her? A bewitching and sad story about men from Leiji Matsumoto.

A beautiful transfer student, Hitode Tatejima, clad in a jet-black sailor suit, arrives in a classroom where one after another, the dead are beheaded by a flying ski, steel doors in the subway, and a crashing traffic light. The only way to save the cursed high school students is to sacrifice one of them. Is the enigmatic girl friend or foe? Envy and fear, love and hatred are all mixed up in this horror story of school suspense.

There’s the affectionless father and the overly affectionate mother, and then there’s the beautiful 18 year old high schooler Rina. “Friends are just meant to be used,” is what Rina says when she is caught having sex with one of her friends’ boyfriends. Rina has such a low opinion of friends, but when she is hospitalized her classmate from elementary school, Maki, appears before her, wanting to continue their free-of-charge friendship from long ago. In this day and age, just what is the meaning of friendship? A tale of friendship based on a true story, as retold by Yoshi (the same author as Deep Love).

The sky is struck by the eagle, the dragon gate is leaped over by the fish, the bear roars and the tiger howls, indicating that all things possess spirits. The world has undergone a complete transformation with the pole of doom, the magnetic pole’s rotation, and global changes. The world that was once familiar has altered beyond recognition. The boundaries of the world are limitless, and the blood is eternal when myths turn into reality, and legends are no longer enigmatic.

Newly weds Nam Gun Woo and Baek Mei Zhen are living together in a modest apartment on Gun Woo's salary as a news cameraman. One day when they were driving in the rain the couple encountered a beggar. While trying to help the beggar an "incident" occurred. Shortly after, news of the "infected" began to spread. Of patients that escaped the hospital. The situation quickly spiraled out of control. A story of love and survival.

The Demon King was defeated. The world is at peace. But... it was too late. The Hero Albus is in a hurry. The story turns and begins again, as if naturally, from the place where it all started. The well-informed Hero Albus embarks on a new adventure, where time is of the essence. Time-saving! Efficient adventure strategy! When recruiting a priest, be forceful! It doesn't matter if you are mistaken for a new kind of scam. And suddenly, he challenges an S-class dangerous monster.

3 Stories (part 1 and 3 of chapter 1 and chapter 3) here were adapted into a movie called Bourei no Sumu Ie ~Kanako Inuki Kyoufu WORLD~ (亡霊の棲む家～犬木加奈子恐怖world～) 1. Kurayami no Onnatachi (*暗闇の女たち* Women of the Darkness) 3 stories about women living normal lives in their apartments, but eventually everything starts going wrong. 2. Gokiburi no Ie (*ゴキブリの家* The House of Cockroaches) A rich wealthy that has a terrible fear of cockroaches faces a bizarre infestation... 3. Kao no nai Onna (*顔のない女* Faceless Woman) A woman's neighbor starts trying to take her identity and life... 4. Jukai Kitan (*樹海奇譚* Strange Tale of the Sea of Trees) A man enters the famous Aokigahara forest, known for its suicides, and he finds the corpse of a beautiful woman, and decides to take photos of it... 5. Rei to Asobu na Kodomotachi!! (*霊と遊ぶな 子供たち!!* Children, Don't Play with Ghosts!! Kanako Inuki tells her own scary stories from life. Features ghost stalkers, out of body experiences and haunted apartments. 6. Akumu no Tobira (*悪夢の扉* Door of Nightmares) Two girls end up stuck in twisted fairytale-esque nightmares...

En has no prospects as a child of the slums—he ekes out a living by selling the scrap cyborg augmentations he scavenges to anyone who will buy. But when he's forced to go through some unethical experimentation, he transforms—making him eligible to become a fighter in the only thing that matters in this bleak world: The Rokudo Tournament!

The Human Empire fell to ruin, leaving behind a dystopia controlled by the current Machinery Empire. In this wasteland where human life is deemed worthless, a wandering boy meets a princess in hiding. When tragedy occurs, the fallen rise, and a journey begins. Thus begins the story of two children and their fight to restore hope for humanity.

“I Will Become a Demon”. A young man named Won-soo, known from the terrible legends of Murim, shows his way in this story. **Original Webtoon:** [Mootoon](https://www.mootoon.co.kr/comic/moo_list.mg?tcode=p7y0), [Naver Series](https://series.naver.com/comic/detail.series?productNo=8689418), [KakaoPage](https://page.kakao.com/content/59269577)

A 30-year-old gig worker spots a prostitute who looks exactly like his first crush from middle school. Determined not to ruin those memories, he keeps his distance, content to just watch her night after night. But when a certain incident pushes him over the edge, he finally decides to approach her. Before he can hand over the cash, however, she gives him a “condition” he never saw coming.

Jeanne, a prostitute at address 74, took care of the fallen Janet. Jeanne wants to be friends with Janet, but Janet tries to get information out of her.

Zen Seizaki, a public prosecutor at Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office, is investigating a case of illegal clinical research related to a drug company and a university. During the investigation, he finds a file that Shin Inaba, an anesthesiologist, kept, which includes blood that is mixed with hair, skin, and a paper written with letter F. As he investigates, he realized there's a hidden plot that is connected with a huge election as well as to a certain person who is in charge of it. (Soure: ANN)

Ao Minato killed his abusive stepfather and entered a juvenile reformatory. However, his youngest sister whom he had tried to protect committed suicide, and his older sister Akane has gone missing. Ao, who stumbled upon a weird shrine, wished for the safety of his sister, which is the only hope he has left, and swears to God that he will do anything for that... A new chapter for the blockbuster suspense Massacre Happy Ending.

An adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's classic Crime and Punishment, reworked for younger readers. The setting is St. Petersburg in Czarist Russia, in the days just prior to the Russian Revolution. Rascalnikov is a child from a poor family. He murders an old lady who is a loan shark and flees with her valuables. Judge Polifili, who has been assigned to the case, immediately suspects Rascalnikov because he had recently submitted an essay in a magazine claiming that "the world is divided into those who are geniuses and those who are not. A genius may commit murder but is not guilty if it is for the good of the world." At first, Rascalnikov feels invincible and confident that he can elude the law, but the Judge Polifili obstinately persists in his investigation, and gradually Rascalnikov comes to feel cornered. In the meantime, Sonya, a prostitute, frantically tries to persuade Rascalnikov to turn himself in. All this takes place on the eve of the Russian Revolution.

Satoshi and a group of his friends are on a lengthy boat ride to Kijijima when the world comes to an end—literally. A huge Tsunami wave 500 meters tall overpowers the boat and he finds himself stranded on an island and alone. Meanwhile the rest of the boat has grounded after being dashed upon the shores and soon Satoshi finds them, and sets off a struggle to survive for the passengers and crew of the ship…

Do you know the dark dictionary? No one knows when this book has been in the world. However, it is a terrifying book that has long been devastated by human fear. At some point, it will be quietly placed in a secondhand bookstore, in a library, or in a midnight convenience store. And invite what you get into the world of terror.

Short stories about God's two cat disciples.

A pair of innocent childhood friends–because of an unfortunate event in the family, the two begin to live separate lives. Around 10 years later, the two reunite after experiencing devastating changes, but the only thing that won’t change is that they will never be apart again.

A girl walks alone in a world without humans. Her mission is to search for survivors and cleanse the land. Will humans be found? A story of loneliness and beautiful ruins. --- **Links:** - Alternative Official Raw - [Comic Walker](https://comic-walker.com/detail/KC_000736_S?episodeType=first)

Anthology of short stories by Jiro Taniguchi published from 1975 to 1986. Stories included: Kouya wo Ayume (荒野を歩め) Geronimo (ジェロニモ) Long Knife (ロングナイフ) Mori e (森へ) Tsuki ni Hoeru (月に吠える) Saketa Houkou (裂けた咆哮) Yukar no Mori (ユーカラの森) The Hawk (Taka, 鷹) Kareshibanada (枯柴灘) Irataka no Juzu (イラタカの数珠) The Unnameable (Nazuke Enu Mono, 名づけえぬもの)

Amasawa Miyako, the middle child of 5 siblings, is the only 'normal' one, the others all being very good-looking and very talented at something. She takes care of them at home with cooking, cleaning, etc. because their parents are very busy at work, but she has to deal with both her own insecurities and people's opinions on how she's not like her brothers and sisters. It also doesn't help that she likes her best friend who's in love with her older sister… Note: The 3rd and 4th chapters are the oneshot called: Sora no Mannaka ~Spring Storm~

This work is being published after discussions with the relevant parties, using manga data left on a used PC that was purchased by Komori Hiki-sensei. Please enjoy it without concern, no matter what events may occur in this manga.

Jun, a high school girl, laments the cold relationship between her family due to the debt her mother made. Feeling lonely in her everyday life, she ends up asking a truck driver she met at her part-time job to share some stimulants with her. Jun quickly became addicted to this and started sleeping around to get money to sustain her addiction.

It's 1949, and Kevin Yamagata is a Japanese-American cartoonist drawing the renowned detective comic book series "Billy Bat", after serving in the Allied Forces in World War II. But as his series becomes a massive hit, Kevin discovers that his famed character, Billy Bat already existed before within a Japanese manga. When learning that he may have unconsciously copied the character he saw during his occupation there, Kevin returns to Japan to find Billy Bat's original creator and seek permission from him to use their character. However, as he traces back Billy Bat's roots, he finds himself unraveling a dark twisted history of murders, bat sigils, conspiracy theories, and prophecies that somehow involve the character he thought he originally created. --- **Awards Won:** - Winner of the [Lucca Comics Awards](https://luccacomicsawards.com/albo-doro-2/) for Best Manga Series in 2012. - Winner of the [Max und Moritz Award](https://www.comic-salon.de/en/max-and-moritz-award) for Best International Comic in 2014. --- See [MyAnimeList](https://myanimelist.net/manga/11054/Billy_Bat?q=billy%20bat&cat=manga) for Manga Details. - [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Bat)

The stories of various shinigami and the young men they are in charge of escorting to the afterlife. Each chapter deals with a different human - shinigami pair.